 | Cortes Society - 1922 - 294 páginas
...man takes to himself a wife when he arrives at a certain age which is about fourteen or fifteen.02 Some men have three or four wives, but they esteem...nor would they consent to it even if refusal meant death.83 They give up all the duties of women and imitate men, and follow men's pursuits as if they... | |
 | Raymond Corbey - 1991 - 276 páginas
...account of Brazilian Amazons from Pero de Magalhaes de Gandavo's Historia de provincia Sanaa Cruz (1576): There are some Indian women who determine to remain...nor would they consent to it even if refusal meant death. They give up all the duties of women and imitate men, and follow men's pursuits as if they were... | |
 | Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine Lang - 1997 - 354 páginas
...de Gandavo's description of the so-called amazon warrior is hearsay and not f1rsthand information: There are some Indian women who determine to remain...nor would they consent to it even if refusal meant death. They give up all the duties of women and imitate men, and follow men's pursuits as if they were... | |
 | Jason Cromwell - 1999 - 220 páginas
...on male privileges. De Gandavo reported in 1576 that females among the Tnpinamha Indians of Brazil "determine to remain chaste: these have no commerce...nor would they consent to it even if refusal meant death, They give up all the duties of women and imitate men, and follow men's pursuits as if they were... | |
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They give up all the duties of women and imitate men, and follow men's pursuits as if they were not women. They wear the hair cut in the same way as the men, and go to war with bows and arrows and pursue game, always in company with men ; each has a woman... 